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<h1 class="title">Getting started</h1>

<div class="section" id="requirements">
<h1>Requirements</h1>
<p>Greator needs <a class="reference external" href="http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/">Python26</a> to run. <a class="reference external" href="http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/">Python26</a> is available for many
platforms (Windows, MacOS, Linux) and can be downloaded from the
<a class="reference external" href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a> website.</p>
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<div class="section" id="getting-greator">
<h1>Getting Greator</h1>
<p>Greator is free software published under the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL3</a>. Greator download
archives are available from</p>
<blockquote>
<a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/greator/downloads/list">http://code.google.com/p/greator/downloads/list</a></blockquote>
<p>These archives are named as follows:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
GREATOR-1.57-Berlin.zip
</pre>
<p>Choose the latest download archive (look at the &quot;upload date&quot;) and
download it.</p>
<p>The <a class="reference external" href="http://mercurial.selenic.com/">Hg</a> (Mercurial) source code repository with the latest version
is available at</p>
<blockquote>
<a class="reference external" href="https://greator.googlecode.com/hg/">https://greator.googlecode.com/hg/</a></blockquote>
</div>
<div class="section" id="installing-greator">
<h1>Installing Greator</h1>
<p>To install Greator, you have to extract the download archive. You can
choose the extract-destination as you like, so pick a place you easily
remember. In the remainder of this manual, we will call this the
<em>Greator directory</em>.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>To extract the Greator download archive, you need an extraction
utility. There are many of such utilities available and it is likely
you have one installed already. If not, google for:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
&quot;&lt;YOUR PLATFORM&gt; .tar.gz .zip&quot;
</pre>
<p>where &lt;YOUR PLATFORM&gt; is your platform: Windows, Mac OS, Linux, etc.</p>
<p>On Windows, <em>7-Zip</em> will do the job (and it is free): <a class="reference external" href="http://www.7-zip.org/">http://www.7-zip.org/</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Note that on Windows, double clicking the download archive does only
open it. To extract the archive, right-click it and select &quot;Extract
to&quot; or something similar.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="uninstalling-greator">
<h1>Uninstalling Greator</h1>
<p>To uninstall Greator, remove the Greator directory.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="running-greator">
<h1>Running Greator</h1>
<p>To run Greator, go to the Greator directory and start up the Python
script</p>
<blockquote>
<em>rungreator.pyw</em></blockquote>
<p>When Greator has started up, it displays a window similar to this:</p>
<img alt="../images/init_screen.gif" src="../images/init_screen.gif" />
<p>Now Greator is running. The next step is to <a class="reference external" href="create_game.html">create a game</a>.</p>
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